On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 11:59:14 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
that as labor if you really have to ;-) people will work on
what they
want to work on, and systemically, are more likely to work on
the
smaller things as they have clearly visible boundaries.
refcounting is not a big thing, but I am not really sure if there
is a clean way to do it with the current infrastructure.
I am pretty sure that someone would do it if there was a clean
design for it.
And then there is the trivial that also become the barrier. For
example I find it very difficult to read Phobos style code, so I
don't. Not that Phobos code style should change because I don't
like
it, but it shows that trivial barriers can stop contribution.
Yes, Phobos is too much like Tango. :-/ So I've started writing
my own... :-P
